No cakewalk dance centre beats cuts to mark 30 years

Thursday 12 September 2013 08:54 BST

A London dance organisation that faced closure when its entire Arts Council funding was axed has fought on to celebrate its 30th birthday.

Chisenhale Dance Space in Bow is launching The Big 30 — a three-month celebration including new commissions — next Thursday with Cake, an evening performance from Eleanor Sikorski. Laura Sweeney, Chisenhale lead producer, said losing the £113,000 subsidy — more than half its annual income — in 2008 was “devastating” but the centre had managed to carry on as a home for dancers developing more experimental work.